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N. PETERS. FHUTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHIHGTON. D. C.

nisrrnn rarita@ lll. C. \VlLLlAl\'IS, Olt Jlflltllfll' CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T() JAMES FlJiIAGi/XN, OF Nl'lW YORK, N. Y.

TENT.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 32,715, dated July 2 1861.

Figure l, is a longitudinal vertical section of my invention, taken in the line m, 1v, Fig. y

3, and shown in proper position for use. Fig. 2, a transverse vertical. section ot the same, taken in the line y, y, Fig. 3. Fig. 3, a plan or top view el the saine. Fig. 4, a reduced plan or top view of the canvas distended, showing the form of the same. llig. 5, a detached View of the preps and pegs pertaining to the same. Fig. 6, a perspective View oi the whole device in a rolled or coinpact state.

Similar letters of reference indicate corA responding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a portable tent or covering of such dimensions that it will afford suiiicient protection 'for a single soldier in a rocumbent or lying posture and still be capable of being folded or rolled up to form a very small parcel that may be readily carried-on the ki'iapsack or strapped directly to the back ot the soldier therebyenabling hiin to carry his own tent, and dispensing with the costly wagons hitherto employed for carrying 'the ordinary tents, and which greatly retard the march of an army, even over goed roar s, and which when ii'npracticable to be used, subject troops to great exposure and hardships.

lli/ly invention consists iu having a piece ot canvas or any suitable water proof cloth cut in a novel form, and using in connection therewith two cross props and a few pegs and cords, all arrangedas hereinafter described.

rlo enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention 'i will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a piece of canvas or any suitablel water-proof cloth, cut in the torni shown in Fig. 4t; (l, representing the main portion which is oli rectangular form; Z), l),

the sides ot triangular form, and c the back of quadrilateral form. rlhe part a, of the canvas or cloth is bound with a rope (Z, at both sides and one end, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4t. At each angle of the part a, of the cloth or canvas there is made a hole c, and a hole j, is made at the outer angle oit each side b, holes g, g, are also made at the outer angles of the back c, of the Cloth or canvas, see Fig. 4L.

B, l5, represent two `cross rods or bars, which are connected by a pintle or 'joint Zi, and are each provided at one end with a tube or socket z'. rhe rods or bars l5, are of wood, the sockets a', being of metal to receive rods C. llhe rods B, B, C, C, form jointed 'props for supporting the cloth or canvas A, and the upper ends o1 the rods or bars B, are inserted in the inner holes c, olf the part a, of the cloth or canvas, the lower ends oil the props resting on the ground.

To the inner end of the part o, there is attached a rope or cord j, which is strained by a peg 7c, driven in the ground. 'lhe outer end oli' the part a, is secured to the ground by two pegs Z, Z, which pass through the outer holes c, c, and the center portion of the lower end olf part a, is elevated by a prop m, and strained taut by a cord n, and peg 0. The elevation of the lower end of the part c, ot the cloth or canvas atiords room for the feet o1" the occupant of the tent. The sides b, ZJ, and back c, are sel cured iirinly down to the ground by pegs p, which iass through the holes j', f', of the parts Z), Z), 'and through the holes g, g, olf the back c, of the cloth or canvas.

The dimensions ot the cloth or canvas A, are such that when stretched and propped up as described, a soldier may readily pass under it and be fully covered and protected in a recinnbent and lying posture, and when made of these dimensions the device will admit ot being packed up in a very small compass, for the rods B, B, C, C, of the props may be disconnected and with the prop m, and pegs 7s, Z, Z, o, p, p, rolled up in the cloth or canvas A, as shown in lFig. (i, the cord y' serving to bind the roll.

The whole device may be afforded at a small cost and it may be placed on the knapsack of a soldierl or strapped to his back and carried with the greatest iiacility.

Having thus described my invention what tent or covering for troops, substantially as I Clailn as new and desire to secure by Letspecified. ters atent is:

The Waterproof cloth or canvas of the E C WILLIAMS' .5 form shown and described, in combination Witnesses:

with the jointed cross props, foot prop7 M. M. LIVINGSTON, cords and pegs, arranged to form a portable PETER COOKE. 

